Organization

 

Faculty contact information:

 

Textbooks and Reference Material:

There is no required text for this course: the main reference will be class notes.  However, you may find it helpful to buy a textbook to provide a another perspective on the course content and to study more advanced material on your own.

• ABAQUS documentation (requires registration - I tried to use this on Chrome and it didnt work; you might have better luck. Documentation is available through our installed ABAQUS, and you can google manuals for older versions online)
• T. Belytschko, W.K. Liu, B. Moran Nonlinear finite elements for continua and structures, Wiley, 2000. Amazon>>
• A.F. Bower Applied Mechanics of Solids Taylor and Francis, 2009 http://solidmechanics.org (CH7 and 8); Amazon >>
• K.J. Bathe Finite Element Procedures Prentice Hall, 1995 Amazon >> Free pdf of 2nd edition >>
• O.C. Zienkiewicz and R.L. Taylor, The Finite Element Method for Solid and Structural Mechanics 6th ed. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005 Amazon>> (also available on Knovel through Brown library)
• Carlos Felippa's FEA courses Link>>

Class Schedule and Room Assignments:

Mon, Wed 8:30am-9:50am Barus Holley 190

 

Faculty office hours (start Sept 18):

 

Grading Policy

Your final score in the course will be based on

• Homework assignments
• Code development and verification
• Final project

Since this is primarily a code development/project based course numerical grades will not be used. Instead, your grade will be determined by the following rubric

• Completed all phases of the course - (use of ABAQUS; Matlab coding exercises; ABAQUS user element and material subroutine development and development in EN234FEA); no more than two assignments submitted late; solutions were correct, well presented and organized; evidence of initiative and significant effort in most assignments and in final project - A

• Completed 8 or more homeworks and a final project; no more than four assignments were submitted late; assignments well presented and organized; final project is extensive and shows initiative; B

• Completed 6 or more homeworks; completed a final project - C

• Anything else – NC

We will follow the tenets of the Academic Honor Code of Brown University.  Honor code violations may result in loss of credit for the assignment involved, loss of credit for the course, or additional penalties as determined by the academic disciplinary committee.

 

Submitting work and collecting graded assignments

 

Assignments and project work should be submitted via Canvas or (for EN234FEA coding) uploaded on GitHub.

Graded assignments will be returned electronically through Canvas.

 

 

Collaboration Policy

Homeworks: You may work on homework problems as a group.  However, any work submitted for grading must represent work done by the person who will receive credit for the assignment.  It is not acceptable for two students to submit identical copies of a homework problem.  It is not acceptable for one student to copy work previously done by another. 

Design Projects: Your project should be done individually.